Sentences with phrase «biomass for ethanol»

In another experiment, bagasse was used as a starting plant biomass for ethanol production without washing / separation processes.

Not exact matches

Other agricultural production goods include timber, fertilizers, animal hides, leather, industrial chemicals (starch, sugar, alcohols and resins), fibers (cotton, wool, hemp, silk and flax), fuels (methane from biomass, ethanol, biodiesel), cut flowers, ornamental and nursery plants, tropical fish and birds for the pet trade, and both legal and illegal drugs (biopharmaceuticals, tobacco, marijuana, opium, cocaine).

After dissolving plant biomass by the novel solvent, carboxylate - type liquid zwitterion, hydrolysis and fermentation were consecutively carried out in one reaction pot for conversion into ethanol.

But the hardiness that allows aspens to thrive in nature makes them resistant to enzymatic breakdown during fermentation, an important step for converting biomass into ethanol.

All use of biomass — whether for ethanol or electricity — runs the risk of displacing food crops, however, as well as the need for large amounts of water.

By using a combination of crop growth, hydrological, carbon and nitrogen cycle models, researchers found that the estimated land suitable for bioenergy grasses — particularly Miscanthus, the most productive bioenergy crop — is limited, despite its relatively high biomass productivity and low water consumption per unit of ethanol.

Since transportation and storage of biomass add to the overall production cost if the materials aren't located near the biofuels facility, agricultural areas are the best location for renewable biomass to be used in ethanol production.

George Huber, chemical engineer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Bright Idea: Produce ethanol or other renewable fuels from biomass that we do not use for food.

A better title would have been: «Fueled: The Effects of Using Food for Fuel» or something like that, because the central question of the book is to what degree has using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and fuel.

Algae seem to be a poor fit for this, since they are an unusually wet source of biomass and the apparently best use is to make bio-oil based diesel and ethanol.

The EPA allows small oil refineries to apply for hardship exemptions from the RFS ethanol blending requirements, with «small» meaning capacity 10,000 tons of biomass per day, producing at least 20,000 barrels of fuel per day.

The largest application for biomass is to burn it directly or to ferment it to produce ethanol.

Western Biomass Energy LLC, a subsidiary of Blue Sugars Corporation (previously KL Energy) reported the major milestone of claiming the first cellulosic ethanol tax credits under the RFS2 for a 20,069 gallon batch of cellulosic ethanol produced from bagasse (sugar cane waste) in April 2012.

Edeniq, Inc. developed a low - cost, low carbon intensity technology for the conversion of cellulosic biomass (plant material) to ethanol.

Fuel Ethanol Minus Denaturant: An unobserved quantity of anhydrous, biomass - derived, undenatured ethanol for fuEthanol Minus Denaturant: An unobserved quantity of anhydrous, biomass - derived, undenatured ethanol for fuethanol for fuel use.

I have previously weighed in on the current status of cellulosic ethanol technology, as well as the amount of biomass required for implementation.

Eligible feedstocks for gasoline substitutes are waste - based biomass and purpose grown crops with a carbon intensity substantially lower than current average California produced ethanol using Midwest corn feedstocks (80.7 gCO2 - eq / MJ).

For maize ethanol grown in Iowa, the figures are around 0.3 percent into biomass and 0.15 percent into ethanol.

This is important context for the thorny question of whether, and how, carbon emissions from burning bioenergy — renewable energy made available from materials derived from biological sources (a category that includes both biofuels like ethanol and biomass like wood used to generate electricity)-- should be included in prospective carbon taxes.

The researchers found that using biomass to produce electricity for electric vehicles would produce 81 percent more transportation miles than using the same amount of crops to produce ethanol.

At the moment, most of this comes from ethanol produced by corn, and in the future plans are to power vehicles from forests, oil crops such as oil palm and soya for biodiesel, and other biomass.

They see small - scale cellulosic refineries located near switchgrass grown on empty fields, beside pulp paper mill plants, or linked to municipal landfills, producing ethanol and using leftover biomass for co-generation of heat.

We are concerned with America's growing ethanol industry, the implications it has in setting a precedent for additional biomass based energy, and the massive agricultural industrialization of the world's remaining rainforests and other natural wildlands this would require.

This organism, discovered several years ago in Massachusetts, is a natural consolidated bioprocessor, expresses requisite enzymes for the extraction of fermentable sugars from biomass, and co-ferments all the C5 and C6 sugars into ethanol.

And it Doesn't include the production of algae and duckweed, which is currently at 6,000 gallons per acre per year, for oil and ethanol respectively, plus co-product biomass that can go to feed or fuel depending on demand.

The agreement calls for support of the «rapidly growing wind energy, corn ethanol and biodiesel industries,» and for recognition of the «potential for robust cellulosic biomass and solar industries.»

Ethanol and biodiesel have become an increasingly common source of transportation fuel and industry has expanded its use of biomass for onsite heat and power generation.

Hemp grown for both seed and biomass has a stalk yield of up to 3.5 tons per acre, which would make it an economical source of cellulose for ethanol production.

The United States provides a range of incentives for ethanol production including exclusion from excise taxes, mandating clean air performance requirements that created markets for ethanol, and tax incentives and accelerated depreciation schedules for electricity generating equipment that burn biomass (USDOE, 2005).

The sugarcane would then provide feedstock for an ethanol plant, with leftover cane used to create biomass electricity at night with a nearby solar concentrator complex generating power during the day.

(Sec. 1514) Directs the EPA Administrator to: (1) establish an Advanced Biofuel Technologies Program to demonstrate advanced technologies for the production of alternative transportation fuels; (2) give priority to projects that enhance the geographical diversity of alternative fuels production and utilize feedstocks that represent 10 % or less of domestic ethanol or biodiesel fuel production during the previous fiscal year; and (3) fund demonstration projects to develop conversion technologies for producing cellulosic biomass ethanol, and for coproducing value - added bioproducts (such as fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides) resulting from biodiesel fuel production.

According to Ethanol Producer Magazine (EPM), Toronto, Ontario - based SunOpta Inc. has sold a continuous process system for the conversion of biomass - to - ethanol to Dedham, Mass. - based Celunol Corp (formerly BC InternatEthanol Producer Magazine (EPM), Toronto, Ontario - based SunOpta Inc. has sold a continuous process system for the conversion of biomass - to - ethanol to Dedham, Mass. - based Celunol Corp (formerly BC Internatethanol to Dedham, Mass. - based Celunol Corp (formerly BC International).

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will spend $ 250 million to establish and operate two new Bioenergy Research Centers to accelerate basic research on the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels from biomass, including biodiesel, biofuels for aviation, and biologically based hydrogen and other fuels from sunlight.

Indeed, corn is not the optimal basis for providing all the ethanol fuel we will need, but, as the President says, biofuels are needed to reduce our addiction to oil and to slow climate change — and the emerging biofuels market is spurring major investments in using biomass other than corn to make ethanol.

The team is studying a bacterium, or bioprocessing microbe, that can break down cellulosic biomass into sugars for fermenting into ethanol.

BlueFire Renewables, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BFRE), a company focused on changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of renewable fuels from non-food cellulosic wastes, announced that it has finalized and signed an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for its planned cellulosic ethanol facility in Fulton, MS.. The facility will be engineered and built by Wanzek Construction, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of MasTec, Inc. (NYSE: MTZ), for a fixed price of $ 296 million which includes an approximately $ 100 million biomass power plant as part of the facility.

For example, starch from corn grown in the midwest has traditionally been the source of some of the ethanol used as a fuel additive in the U.S.. Another option for the conversion of cellulosic biomass, such as hemp stalks, to ethanol is their hydrolysis to sugar, followed by fermentation and removal of the produced ethanol by distillatiFor example, starch from corn grown in the midwest has traditionally been the source of some of the ethanol used as a fuel additive in the U.S.. Another option for the conversion of cellulosic biomass, such as hemp stalks, to ethanol is their hydrolysis to sugar, followed by fermentation and removal of the produced ethanol by distillatifor the conversion of cellulosic biomass, such as hemp stalks, to ethanol is their hydrolysis to sugar, followed by fermentation and removal of the produced ethanol by distillation.

Researchers found that burning biomass to produce electricity for electric vehicles would produce 81 percent more transportation miles than using the same crops to produce ethanol.

Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to: biological, thermochemical, or thermocatalytic routes for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to advanced biofuels beyond cellulosic ethanol; microbial fuel cells for direct production of electricity from renewable carbon sources; hydrogen production from autotrophic or heterotrophic microorganisms; hydrocarbons and lipids from phototrophic or heterotrophic microorganisms.

You may be able to grow enough extra grain or biomass to make ethanol for a tractor, but it will always be cheaper to grow the extra hay to feed a horse.

Researchers at the University of Northern Iowa's Tallgrass Prairie Center (TPC) are looking at ways to use the state's mixed prairie plantings as a source of renewable energy — as biomass to produce ethanol or to burn for electricity.

Biomass is currently replacing fossil oil in many countries because they can grow the biomass and produce biodiesel or even ethanol for less than the current prices for petroleum prBiomass is currently replacing fossil oil in many countries because they can grow the biomass and produce biodiesel or even ethanol for less than the current prices for petroleum prbiomass and produce biodiesel or even ethanol for less than the current prices for petroleum products.

Also — guess where lots of biomass for cellulosic ethanol comes from in addition to switchgrass?